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Human Resources committee  I can give you an example that I had last week. I was in Newfoundland, and I met with this employer who became one of our corporate partners. He has 100 fried chicken restaurants in Canada. He just did renovations for 15 of those restaurants to make them completely accessible, no

March 5th, 2013Committee meeting

Robert White

Human Resources committee  If I may say so, I think we get that red tape as well whenever we apply for grants. We're actually into that process right now. There's a lot of red tape, and it's very time-consuming. We have very small budgets and very small groups of staff, so we have to dedicate a lot of our

March 5th, 2013Committee meeting

Robert White

Human Resources committee  Actually, we partner with other organizations as well, from a national perspective. We have partnerships with banks. Our revenue across Canada to operate our organizations is $23.5 million. Fifty per cent of that comes from partnerships with the business community. So yes, we par

March 5th, 2013Committee meeting

Robert White

Human Resources committee  I'd just add that the project we're presenting here today, that we're calling the Discovering the Power in Me program.... Basically we have a bank that's interested in the project, interested in investing in it and bringing it forward. They like the concept. The idea is that we'r

March 5th, 2013Committee meeting

Robert White